Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, October 28, 1966

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba Today s Index action line Page 18 Jumble contest Page 28 classified 28 to 38 movies 13 comics 18, 19 sports 39 to 46 deaths .9 television 13 finance 20 to 22 women 15, 16 vol. 74 no. 26 Winnipeg Friday october 28, 1966 Sun rim am. Moon . Sun sett . Moon sets final edition first 1-14 forecast sunny 20 and 40 South Africa loses Assembly voices to wind up mandate United nations up Many in Diplo Mats expressed doubt to Day that the world organization could carry out the general Assembly s decision to wrest South West Africa from a Defi ant South african govern ment. The 121-nation Assembly voted 114 to 2 thursday night to end South Africa s old league of nations mandate Over the Square mile territory on her Northwest Border and bring under in trusteeship. The world body also voted the establishment of a special com Mittee of 14 member states to be designated by the Assembly president to recommend prac tical Means by which the Terri tory should be administered. It called upon the South Afri can government forthwith to refrain and desist from any action constitutional administrative p o 1 i t i c a 1 or otherwise which will in any manner what please see s. Africa Page 3 plans Hurt nato role Landymore defence proposals blasted in Admiral s original draft by Victor Mackle Ottawa staff Canada would be unable to meet its present commitments to nato under changes defence department and because of the reduction in manpower Admiral William Landy planned by the pipeline Deal blasted Ottawa govern ment ran head on into an aroused opposition today when it tabled an agreement with trans Canada pipe lines Ltd. Permitting construction of a line through the United states. Opposition Leader Diefenbaker insisted that the agree ment be submitted to a parliamentary committee to make Stire that it would not under mine the future development of Northern and southwestern on Tario. Please see pipeline Page 9 More said in the draft of his submissions to the commons defence committee. That draft was altered in the office of defence minister Paul Hellyer last june prior to the Admiral s presentation in a secret briefing to the committee june 23. The Admiral in testimony not allowed to be presented to the committee protested that with the planned disposal of older ships and the drop in recruiting Canada could not meet her commitments. The defence minister tabled in the commons Friday the Origi Nal draft of the maritime command presentation As pre Pretoria Cabinet huddles Pretoria minister John Vorster held a special Cabinet meeting today to discuss South Africa s answer to thursday night s United nations vote to terminate the Republic s mandate Over South West Africa. Political observers speculated the government might now con Sider quitting the United nations. The Cabinet was due to hear later a first hand from foreign minister Hilgard Muller on the general Assembly vote which Aims at wresting from South Africa control of the territory which it has administered for 46 years. Muller was due Back from new York by air Friday. Please see Pretoria Page 8 nuclear weapon test Over her Juji Cachua Liula to a i pared by Admiral Landymore. Ried out a guided missile and he also tabled the actual text of the briefing of the committee As Given by the Admiral. Continued please see plans Hurt Page 8 peking joins club nuclear warhead explodes on target test linked to Viet Nain War by Robert elegant Hong Kong special tons the chinese communists announced today they had test fired a guided missile fitted with a nuclear warhead which exploded on target. China thus became a full fledged member othe nuclear weapons club. The official new China news Agency declared the test had taken place China s own thursday territory Over in its Brief announcement claiming for the first time that China possessed nuclear announcements of the previous three tests had referred Only to nuclear it was also peking s first claim to possess guided missiles for military use. The Agency reported on oct. 27 China successfully ear own territory. The guided mis continued please see China Page 10 Drums resound As peking cheers by Virgil Berger peking Reuters huge columns of demonstrators to Day marched through peking with red banners streamers and portraits of communist chairman Mao tse Tung to Cele quit Viet Nam . Told tax haggling won t alter Bill gets it by Joyce Fairbairn Ottawa staff too often a Federal provincial conference takes on the air of a Duel at Dawn with one Side firing a killing blast and dashing off with the package. Or sometimes both sides inflict their wounds and stagger off to lick them. Such symbolism tends to be distracting and finance minister Sharp quite proper la tossed it out the window thursday. The Federal and provincial governments might have their pistols drawn be said but the Chap who gets the Bullet is you me and every other benighted taxpayer. This very pertinent fact sometimes becomes obscured in the mounting excitement of choosing sides. If the Federal government manages to hang on grimly to the Revenue Powers it wants and cast off certain continued see ratepayer Page 10 die slams car Deal Paris a president de Gaulle called today for a Viet namese settlement based on guaranteed self determination after the withdrawal of Ameri can troops. He told a crowded press con Ference in Elysee Palace the americans cannot subdue Viet Nam and that an Ameri can military Victory there is impossible. At the same time he added the american forces now in Viet Nam cannot be destroyed by their foes. Once More demanding withdrawal of american forces from Viet Nam de Gaulle said peace there depends on Washington s unjustifiable that acceptance of the principle of was permitted by the govern self determination for the Viet j ment to import Volks namese people. Wagen cars duty free and sell they have Only to observe the principle that each people should Settle their own affairs in their own manner and by their own he said. The americans have Only to apply this principle to the Viet Ottawa up opposition Leader Diefenbaker said thurs Day in the commons that can Adian Studebaker made a kill ing in a Deal with Volkswagen at the expense of Canadian tax payers. Said it was wrong and namese people. They have Only to withdraw bit by bit the forces which they sent to Viet Nam after the departure of our French he said France does not plan to offer mediation in Viet Nam because neither Side would Wel come it. The president said France cannot stand to see a Small people being bombarded by a great Power this was in effect another demand by de Gaulle for cessation of . Bombing on North Viet Nam. De Gaulle said the United states and other Powers should let the vietnamese work out their future for themselves. Wagen them Back to Volkswagen Cor Sale at the full Price in this country. The transaction had lost jobs for canadians in Canada. Or. Diefenbaker made his commons remarks after Rev Enue minister Benson said Stu Debaker was entitled under terms of the Canada-. Auto agreement to import the Volks Wagens free of the 17 per cent duty. Please see def Page 6 troops to stay Stockholm a pre Mier Bjarni Benediktsson of ice land said thursday his coun try s membership in nato is still a very Lively dispute subject but that his government plans to keep . Troops in ice Landl Benediktsson is on an official visit to Sweden. Snowing showing radio stations beamed out Jingle Bells and people were chiming merry Christmas at bus stops. But the Weatherman says it s too Early. A Light Snow melting As it touched the ground covered a relatively Small area of Southeastern Manitoba As it moved across the province to Northwestern Ontario. An end by noon was the Outlook for Winnipeg and a sunny breakthrough for saturday. But while the weekend Sun shines temperatures should hover around 35 during the Day and 20 overnight according to tie Weatherman. He could fore see no heavier snowfall at least to the end of this weekend. Brate China s first guided mis Sile nuclear test. Soon after the Early morning announcement of the test peking streets began to Echo with the sound of drum beats and clashing cymbals and gongs. Jubilant communist officials handed out special editions of the people s daily printed entirely in red with headlines pro claiming successful explosion of first guided missile nuclear weapon is a great Victory for thought of Mao tse Tung and a splendid Success for the great proletarian cultural the peking communique gave no details about the strength or Type of the missile How far it flew or the composition of its warhead. Contrary to announcements at the site of China s three Previ Ous nuclear tests it did not state what time thursday s explosion took place or what re Gion of China was used. The communique said China was developing nuclear weapons to oppose nuclear monopoly and blackmail by the . And rus Sia acting in most of the demonstrators converged on offices of the communist party Central commit tee and streets in the area were soon blocked by dense crowds. They shouted slogans and quotations from Mao s writings while truckloads of uniformed troops also singing and shout ing drove with flags and Mao portraits up and Down the Capi Tal s Broad main Boulevard. Please see chinese Page 9 pm expected to reject demands Cabinet believed opposed to More Money transfers by Michael Gallant Ottawa up prime minister Pearson was expected today to reject provincial demands for More Money now from the Federal Treasury. The Federal Cabinet met for almost two hours thursday night to consider Money requests the premiers made during the first four Days of the Federal provincial conference on education and tax sharing. At the conference which is to conclude later today Ottawa offered to turn Over substantial amounts for higher education costs and in equalization pay ments. Informants said the Cabinet decided against any More Money transfers at this time. The Money demands have ranged from Manitoba Premier Duff Roblin s for More than a year in tax trans fers to the provinces to Quebec red chinese cheer missile explosion red Lake used As toilet by residents by Tim Traynor second in a series red Lake out. Staff it is Midnight. A Man Steps out of his Lake front House just off the main Street of this Wester ii Ontario town. He adds his water to that of the Lake. Next morning his. Neighbors will use water from the same Lake to Wash drink and Cook. Quite possibly the Man will use the water himself. In itself the Man s which this reporter witnessed several nights harmless despite its unsanitary overtones. But Here in red Lake it symbolizes a situation which critics charge has led to a number of infant deaths and years of sickness. Basically the situation is this not Only individuals but today s inside stories police seek car spartans Dannies in final Page editorial Page 3 43 a tory party speakers abound on the Campus truths and taxes Maurice Western Christopher Dafoe Abc circulation City zone 94.469 total 138.343 sex officer says saw court martial Hamilton up Frank Trmal of Hamilton a former German naval officer said thursday he witnessed the May 13, 1945, court martial of two German sailors executed for desertion after the end of the Sec Ond world War. Or. Trmal a naval Lieuten ant said the court martial of Bainer Beck 28, and Bruno Dorfer 20, at Camp Zaa dam 10 Miles from Amsterdam took 15 minutes. He did not see the execution but the Day after the court mar tial a Canadian army truck with a selected group of men in it drove up and the two men their hands bound behind their backs were placed in the truck and. Driven i knew it was a Canadian truck but i could not see the Driver to1 see if he was a Ger Man and i did not see the looking for a guitar this want a under musical instruments 49a Martin classical guitar s125. Phone Bill 474-3852. Is among the hundreds of bar gains in today s classified Sec Tion. No matter what you need shop and save in free press want ads. Guns. We heard the canadians would not allow the execution at the Bunker the Captain had picked out. But we heard latest that Dorfer and Beck had been the trial and execution of the two German sailors was re ported in. The sept. .12 Issue of the West German Zine Der. Spiegel. The Maga Zine later quoted officers and a judge who contended the trial was or dered by Canadian army offi cers. Defence minister Hellyer told the commons oct. I that he. Was satisfied there was no foun Dation to the Magazine s Allega please see saw much of the town uses Howie Bay on which the town fronts As a toilet. Five main sewers and unnumbered septic tanks flush into the shallow slow moving Inlet. Close to the sewer some cases Only feet intake pipes for the town s five main drinking water systems. If the water was purified before distribution there would be no problem much of the world s drinking water is Puri fied sewage. Bui medical authorities in the Region suspect red Lake s drinking water has t been properly purified for years. Their belief was strongly reinforced by a recent Survey of the t o w n s drinking water systems. This Survey conducted by the Northwestern health unit revealed that three out of the five systems were feeding a purified water to their patrons. In its september report the unit also said the operator of one of the systems had been found to be falsifying reports of his purification procedures. The five systems summed up the report Aren t being properly maintained. Please see residents Page 8 govt. Hit for Lack of Homes Ottawa up opposition maps complained in the com Mons thursday that govern ment policies Are contributing to severe housing shortages. George Chatterton pc Esquimalt Stanich said it has be come practically impossible to get a mortgage in British co Lumbia. The construction Indus try was forced to Lay off work ers. David Orlikov nip Nipes North said slums Are spreading and housing construction is off sharply. The situation was so bad in Toronto that homeless families were being lodged in jail cells. Please set govt. Page food go Ops planned Montreal a group of Montreal housewives calling themselves the committee of angry Consumers has announced plans to establish live co opera Tive food stores in various districts of the City. Mrs. Morma Meyer of the an g r y Consumers the newly formed group that picketed a number of Montreal supermarkets last saturday told a Down town gathering of running co operative drug stores As Well. Boycotts and picketing while useful in attracting publicity Are Duce ments Only temporary in to Chain stores to lower she said. We must find a More per manent solution. T we Are forming a committee of businessmen Bankers architects and Ether qualified people to advise us How and where to set up pension boosts forseen by Michael Gillan Ottawa govern ment is expected to beef up its proposed program to guarantee a minimum income for the aged in an Effort to win More opposition support for it. When the plan was announced last summer health minister Maceachen said it would guar Antee an income of at least a month to persons qualifying for the s75-a-month old age pension. The opposition parties criticized it on the grounds it introduces age lest into the old demanded the old age pen Oft Money was returned Sion be boosted to a month. Yield fully mands but to opposition de that in mands out Inai m formats say should improve ate or be questioned. The measure Are ready for Sab inet consideration. Under the scheme As proposed at present the government and a month. See pension Page Premier Johnson s of 000 a year increasing to a year by 1971-72. During the conference the fed eral government refused to Budge above the tax transfers outlined at the Start of the meet ing. Please see Pearson Page 10 Roblin predicts tax hikes by Victor Mackie Ottawa staff taxes going to have to go up in every province to meet added costs and services Manitoba Premier Duff Roblin said Here thursday at the close of the fourth Day of the Federal provincial conference. Premier Roblin when asked to comment said there would undoubtedly be increases in taxes. He added that there would have to be increases in taxes in All provinces. He said increases in taxes Don t make politicians popular but they have to face facts. Ear Lier during this conference and at the meetings of the tax Struc Ture committee last month or. Roblin hinted strongly that he May have to impose a sales tax in Manitoba. Please see Page 9 new York payoffs alleged new York first scandal of mayor Job ii v. Lind say s 10-month-old adm Nistra Ion broke thursday with the Spring of a Sani tation department official. The dismissal of Vincent Sta first Deputy sanitation commissioner came shortly be Ore the City s investigation commissioner charged that pay offs of up to each were made by 30 men to get Sanita Ion department promotions. A department Foreman also was ired and another Foreman re signed. Arnold g. Fra Man the in estimation commissioner said his office found 30 of the 55 Ligh ranking members of the s uniformed Force lad made payoffs ranging from to for a total men were at the top of the pro motion list and deserved their demotions but still were arced to pay off. He said that when his probe Fraiman who did not make Uil us in m Lindsay for refusing to co oper Start Jet taxi Paris Das at i n c would pay pensioners the differ Sault aircraft firm announced ence Between their income in thursday if is setting up Jet eluding the pension taxi will Enid Lyle i French businessmen to order reach businessmen to order plane to Uke them anywhere to Europe. A1 ;